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MPs Claim That Government Departments Should Relocate Out Of London

Monday, February 6th, 2012

London traffic bright lightsA group of MPs are urging the Government to move some of its whole departments out of the capital and across other regions of the UK.

The campaign claims that London’s monopoly of major Government departments should be broken up and the MPs insist that they should be spread out around England to create thousands of civil service jobs.

The Bills include The Department for Transport Relocation to Birmingham: Bill; Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to Sheffield; the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to Manchester; the Department for Education to Nottingham; the Department for International Development to Newcastle; the Department for Work and Pensions to Leeds, and the Department for Communities and Local Government to Liverpool.

The team of MPs behind the relocation idea are Steve McCabe (Lab Selly Oak), Richard Burden (Lab Northfield), Ian Austin (Lab Dudley North) and John Hemming (Lib Dem Yardley).

Previous plans to move some of the Government departments’ headquarters out of London were instigated when former Prime Minister Gordon Brown recruited Sir Michael Lyons, the former chief executive of Birmingham City Council, to lead a review into the civil service.

The result was 20,000 jobs being shifted out of the South-east and London; and agencies which relocated to the West Midlands included the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, OFWAT, the Big Lottery Fund, and the Gambling Commission.

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MP Richard Burden (Lab Northfield) argues that the system of government in England is far to centralised and Steve McCabe (Lab Selly Oak) added: “In the age of the internet and rapid communications there is no need to have all these people locked up in London. We have an over-heated economy in London and we have unemployment in the rest of the country.”

A Treasury commissioned study in March 2010 reported that 15,000 of the 85,000 civil service jobs in the capital should be moved out.

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Survey Shows That Brits That Are Losing Their Jobs Are Moving Overseas

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

shippingA recent report has revealed that laid off Britons are seeking further employment abroad.

Findings published by TIGA, the trade association that represents the UK games industry, show that 40% of employees who were made redundant between the years 2009 and 2011 moved overseas to work.

The report, dubbed “Making games in the UK today: a census of the UK develop and digital publishing sector” disclosed that nearly half of Britain’s game industry workforce has shrunk 10% because they’d relocated to a foreign country to find work.

Dr Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO, said of the findings: “Our industry is suffering from a serious brain drain. Our competitors in Canada and elsewhere are able to recruit highly skilled developers from the UK largely because they benefit from tax breaks, which effectively reduce the cost of game development.”

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Confectionery Firm Nestle Relocates Office Headquarters

Friday, January 6th, 2012

shutterstock_87880744Nestle has announced that it is moving its headquarters for the first time in more than 40 years.

The confectionery giant is relocating office space from south London to West Sussex and as part of the business move, 840 of its office-based employees will have to move from Croydon by the end of the year.

The world’s largest food and nutrition company said in a statement that it was difficult to redevelop the current offices known locally as ‘Nestle Tower’ and will now be located 15 miles away at City Place in Gatwick.

Paul Grimwood, chairman and CEO of Nestle UK & Ireland, said: “This move represents an exciting new chapter for Nestle in the UK.”

The multinational firm currently produces products such as Smarties, Nescafe and Kit Kat and it is reported that no redundancies will take place as part of the relocation. Nestle currently employs 7,000 people across the UK and Ireland.

But council leaders from Croydon Council are said to be disappointed by the move. The general manager of Croydon Chamber of Commerce, Matthew Sims, said it was a “blow to the local economy”.

In contrast Gatwick’s local authority, Crawley Borough Council, is reportedly delighted with the move saying it is “absolutely fantastic news.”

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